Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army In Two Volumes By Francis B. Heitman, Published 1903 1,070 + 668 pages Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to View $12.74 sale (Reg $14.99) + $1.99 shipping and handling (Current Reprint books retail for $125 for both volumes.) http://cgi.ebay.com/Historical-Register-Dictionary-of-US-Army-Genealogy_W0QQitemZ200300434539QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2ea2d6146b This is a complete list of some 60,000 commissioned officers from the organization of the Army, on September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's original publication in 1903. The list gives the officers' full names and shows their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer, giving his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. CONTENTS. PART I. 1. Names of the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries of War, and Commanding Generals of the Army, showing when and where each was born, exact period of service, and date and place of death. 2. List of general officers of the United States Army and of the United States Volunteers from June, 1775, to 1903, arranged according to grade and rank, with period of service of each. 3. Complete chronological roster of chiefs of bureaus or staff corps, field and staff officers of the line (artillery, cavalry, dragoons, infantry, the legion, rangers, riflemen, sea fencibles, and voltigeurs), showing the acts of Congress under which each regiment or organization was created, with dates of consolidation, disbandment, etc. 4. Names of officers of the Army who have by name been thanked or presented with medals or swords by Congress since the organization of the Army in 1789. 5. Tablas showing promotion of graduates of the United States Military Academy, and numbers in each class. PART II. Complete alphabetical list of commissioned officers of the Army, including officers of the volunteer staff and brevet major or brigadier-generals of volunteers, from the organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, giving their full names and showing services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service; all brevet appointments, medals of honor awarded, and for what service conferred; all cases in which thanks, swords, or medals have been awarded by Congress; all of said officers who joined the Confederate Army in the civil war, and the highest rank attained therein by each, and the date of death of about 9,000 officers who died after leaving the United States service. PART III. 1. Alphabetical list of officers of the Regular Army killed, wounded, or taken prisoner in action since 1789. 2. Alphabetical list of officers of volunteer regiments during the war with Mexico, 1846-1848. 3. Alphabetical list of field officers of volunteers and militia in the service of the United States during the civil war, 1861-1865. 7"j- 4. Alphabetical list of captains of light batteries in the volunteer service during the civil war, 1861-1865. 5. Alphabetical list of general officers of the United States Army and the Confederate States Army killed or died of wounds during the civil war, 1861-1865. 6. Alphabetical list of general officers of the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. 7. Alphabetical list of officers who left the United States Army after November 1, 1860, and joined the Confederate service. 8. Alphabetical list of officers of volunteer organizations during the war with Spain and 'Philippine insurrection, 1898^ to 1902, and alphabetical list of contract surgeons in service, 1898 to 1903. 9. Strength of the losses in battle, etc., during the following wars: War of the Revolution, 1775-1783; Indian wars, 1790-1795; war with Northwest Indians, 1811- 1813; war with Great Britain, 1812-1815; Seminole war, 1817-1818; Black Hawk war, 1831-1832; Seminole war, 1835-1842; war with Mexico, 1846-1848; civil war, or war of the rebellion, 1861-1865; war with Spain and insurrection hi the Philippines, 1898-1902, and insurrection in China, 1900-1901. 10. Alphabetical and chronological list of wars, campaigns, battles, skirmishes, military events, etc., 1775-1902. 11. Alphabetical list of forts, reservations, blockhouses, named camps, National and State Homes for soldiers, national cemeteries, etc., in the United States from its earliest settlement to date. 12. Compilation of tables illustrative of the (most important changes in the) organization of the Army of the United States from 1789 to 1902, and actual strength (annually) at stated periods since 1789.